Lemon Rice
Easy to make Lemon rice with cooked rice. Full of flavour with a hint of lemon, it is a brilliant summer dish.
Ingredients
- 2 cups cooked rice leftover rice from the fridge works the best
- 1 tsp turmeric powder
- 1 sprig curry leaves
- 1 tsp urad dal Black gram without skin
- 1 tsp chana dala Bengal gram split
- 1 tsp black mustard
- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 tbsp ghee optional
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 2 green chilies optional
- 3 tbsp peanuts
- 2 tsp chopped ginger
- pinch of asafoetida heeng
- salt to taste
Instructions
- In a kadai, heat oil and temper with mustard seeds and kurry leaves.
- Keep the heat to a medium and quickly add chana dal, urad dal, asafoetida, chopped ginger and peanuts.
- Keep roasting till you get a nice fragrance and then add the cooked rice.
- Sprinkle salt and turmeric powder. Now stir fry the rice with all the spices till there is not raw smell of turmeric.
- Drizzle some ghee if you want to. Add chopped green chillies and lemon juice.
- Give it a nice stir and turn off the heat. Serve immediately